The WakeMeUP project addresses the foreseen challenges for advanced MCUs by developing key enablers technologies. WAKeMeUP intends to provide demonstrators, in small volume, based on Advanced Non-volatile memory technologies for automotive microcontrollers, high security applications and general electronics demonstrators. Different test chip will be developed to test the technological capabilities and applicability. This implies that the project target at high Technology Readiness Level TRL (3 to 8) for the pilot line of 40nm MCU and 28nm FDSOI with ePCM. Some specific actions will be developped to push the e PCM performances and to benchmark them with others e NVM memory technologies. The TRL of such development will be between 2 and 5. Most of the WAKeMeUP enabling technologies and demonstrators are foreseen to reach the TRL 7-8 level by the end of the project.
The economic impact of strengthening the Nano electronics manufacturing capabilities in Europe includes more than the direct effect in skilled wages. When the demand for Nano electronics increases, the demand for materials, services, labor, machinery and equipment required in producing silicon devices increases, setting off a ripple effect throughout the European economy. This indirect impact is effective in all other industries, particularly in the SMEs sector which is playing a key role in delivering services and equipment depending on Nano electronic devices. Moreover, the field of applications enabled by the WAKeMeUP project encompasses all aspects of the electronics industry, and the widest range of applications, from automotive, to secure payments, and all kinds of smart objects, appliances…
The project will generate benefits for the involved member states, either in production facilities and or in academic know-how and it is expected to have a positive effect on the labor market. It will also benefit to the other ECSEL member states as supplier of the Pilot Line equipment or design of the devices or IP or users of the Pilot Line outputs. By establishing a new Non-Volatile Memory technology suitable for embedded and low-power applications in System-on-Chip (SoC), WAKeMeUP will positively impact many European segments of activity. Indeed, SoC applications are at the center of the European efforts towards building an added value technology platform for “More than Moore” technologies and maintain European research organizations in leading position. With appropriate technology transfers (in terms of processes, procedures and standard or even prototypes), the industries working in the following fields will find potential interest of the outreached activities from WAKeMeUP:
-Green technology thanks to precise industry processes, smart agriculture and farming.
-Health and biomedical applications (telemedicine or biomolecule sensing).
-Infrastructure control with tool surveillance, data security and environmental monitoring.
